Chetan Bhagat is a familiar name for young readers
characterized by his simplicity in writing, humor in sentiments, and ability to
touch the hearts of youths by exploring the youth contents in his novels. Revolution 2020 is his latest book
emphasizing on love, corruption and ambition. This is a story of a place called
vanarasi of India and revolves around three school friends Raghav, Gopal and Aarati,.
Gopal hails from a poor family who loses his mother at an
early age and lives with the father who rarely had any time to prepare him a lunch for school while Raghav
belongs to a well off family who had far
better economic status than his friend. Raghav believes in revolution, a
change, while Gopal believes in money but they both love the same girl, Aarati.
Raghav gets into an IIT college while Gopal
fails to do so in his first attempt. He then joins IIT entrance preparation
course in Kota leaving his father and his beloved friend Aarati apart in Vanarasi
for entrance for next year. In the
process, he loses his bonding with Aarati who was inclined to IITian Raghav .
The major blow for him comes when he loses his father after being unable to make
it to an IIT college after two successive attempts.
The story gets an
interesting turn over when Gopal utilizes his disputed land with his uncle to establish
a college by taking a support from corrupted MLA Sukla. Raghav, an IIT graduate,
on the other hand decides to get into revolutionary journalism to make his desired
changes changing the pattern observed by most of IIT graduates. The Novel
offers unobvious and dramatic twists as two friends turn into enemies. Their
adopted profession takes them toward next level of rivalry, rather a cold one,
one taking the use of corrupted system for his goal while other denouncing it through media for
his desired changes. Lots of drama is then revealed when Aarati , girlfriend of Raghav ,then gets inclined to Gopal after high
profile of Gopal and low times of Raghav. Story nevertheless ends in a good
note after plenty more of struggle for
love, success and happiness in Gopal's life.
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Bhagat, who has been tagged
as a cheap writer by the critics has so largely strengthen his writing this
time around. The battle between two talented and ambitious friends for their
dream and love makes the script so flowing with suspense which unleashes
chronologically. Revolution 2020 is one
heck of a novel which could shut all sort of cynicism about Bhagat's writing
and there should be no one arguing that this is by far the best novel by him.
The novel is an obvious option for reading for youths like
us who should look for the change in our (corrupted) system .Moreover, It
would be a no surprise if this story gets turned up into another Bollywood
Blockbuster like 3 Idiots (5 point Someone), Hello (One night at a call centre)
both of whom are written by Chetan Bhagat himself.
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